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Major Reactions As Crude Marches Down Through $100/Barrel (USO, OIH, AMJ, XOM, CVX, SLB, BHI, RIG, NOV, VLO, CHK)

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 12:24 pm

It was just a couple of days ago that oil was trading around $105 per barrel for West Texas Intermediate crude. Now the talk has migrated away from geopolitical risks associated ...
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Media Digest (3/22/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 6:37 am

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) tries to end a legal case concerning fraud in its CDO sales. (Reuters) China’s factory activity slows, as evidenced by the HSBC flash PMI of 48.1, a low reading. ...
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Oil Field Services Companies Hit by Weaker Oil Prices (SLB, HAL, BHI, WFT, NOV, RIG)

Posted: March 6, 2012 at 1:43 pm

Today’s falling crude prices are having an impact on stocks in the oil field services companies today. Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB), Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL), Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI), ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (SHLD, IPG, DNKN, AEP, URI, AES, BCPC, CHTR, CTB, EP, LOW, KWK, RIG, VRX, ATPG, CQP, DNDN, IMI, MVIS)

Posted: February 27, 2012 at 4:07 pm

Stocks opened down this morning following on weakness in Europe following the G20’s refusal to provide additional funding to the IMF. But at the end of the first hour of ...
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Top 10 Earnings Previews For Early This Coming Week (CHTR, DNDN, LOW, PCLN, AZO, EP, FSLR, TECD, RIG, VSI)

Posted: February 24, 2012 at 12:20 pm

Earnings season is mostly behind us, but we do have some sector-moving earnings next week.  For Monday, the top earnings are from Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR), Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: ...
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Media Digest (1/27/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 6:36 am

Greece and its creditors are close to a deal on the nation’s debt swap. (Reuters) A judge rules that some of the Gulf spill costs to be covered by Transocean (NYSE: ...
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Shell, Transocean Stop Leak in Gulf of Mexico Well (RDS-A, RIG, BP)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 12:46 pm

A small leak in a line feeding drilling fluid to a well owned and operated by Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A) and using a rig owned by Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: ...
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Media Digest (12/15/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT

Posted: December 15, 2011 at 4:35 am

Olympus may hire its former CEO, Michael Woodford, in the midst of an accounting scandal. (Reuters) Foreign investment in China drops for the first time in 28 months. (Reuters) Holiday ...
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What’s New in the Financial World (12/6/2011) The Rise of Shale, BP Fights With Halliburton

Posted: December 6, 2011 at 6:29 am

Eurozone on notice. The situation in Europe, so promising just days ago, took a sharp turn for the worse. S&P put 17 nations in the euro area on credit ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (HD, GMCR, NFLX, STP, RIG, CPN, AEO, JOSB, SDRL, ARO, KKD, ZOLT, AATI, PCX, AVL, JASO, SFLY)

Posted: November 30, 2011 at 4:07 pm

Strong reports from the Chicago purchasing managers index and pending home sales juiced the equity markets this morning, and the gains held up throughout the day. Part of the bounce ...
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Transocean Secondary Offering Completed, New Debt Up Next (RIG)

Posted: November 30, 2011 at 10:48 am

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) yesterday announced a secondary offering of 26 million shares. The sale was completed today at a share price of $40.50, more than a dollar lower than ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMR, CAB, CPN, ERTS, GT, GMCR, HD, LEAP, NAV, NFLX, EDU, NMR, OVTI, STP, RIG, WSH)

Posted: November 30, 2011 at 8:25 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. AMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR) Cut to Sell at Citigroup. Cabela's, ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (RIMM, RIG, YHOO)

Posted: November 29, 2011 at 8:51 am

Crude oil is at $98.25, up 0.04%. Gold is at $1,711, down 0.19%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng closed up 1.21% to 18,256. Japan’s Nikkei closed higher by 2.29% to 8,477. The U.S. 10-year is at 1.99%, up ...
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Implied Gains in Oil Field Services Stocks May Not be Real (SLB, HAL, BHI, RIG, NOV, WFT)

Posted: November 18, 2011 at 2:01 pm

Share prices for the oil field services companies dipped in late July shortly after many of the companies had posted new 52-week highs. The stocks have been struggling since then, ...
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BP Loses Deal in Argentina, But Doesn’t Care (BP, CEO, APC, RIG, HAL, CAM)

Posted: November 7, 2011 at 11:03 am

It isn’t every day that a $7.1 billion deal falls through. Even rarer is a seller’s reaction that amounts to, “What, me worry?” But that’s what occurred over the weekend ...
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